class: center, middle, inverse, title-slide .title[ # Oddly Satisfying ] .subtitle[ ## Find delight in the mundane ] .author[ ### Liz Roten ] .date[ ### July 27, 2022 ] --- <script>document.addEventListener('DOMContentLoaded',function(){new xeBanner(JSON.parse('{"left":"<style>:root {\n --xe-banner-fg: #5A6E73;\n --xe-banner-font-size: 20pt;\n}<\/style>","right":"lizroten.com/slides","position":"bottom"}'))})</script> # There are <!-- This project was pitched to me as a quick data science win. --> <!-- It would be straightforward, simple, and logical --> <!-- We are just updating some data --> --- class: animated fadeInUp fadeOutUp .pull-left[ ### From this... <img src="data:image/png;base64,#./assets/fig/stitch_eyes.webp" width="600px" /> ] --- class: animated fadeInUp fadeOutUp .pull-right[ ### ...to this <video id="tart-icing" controls muted height="400px" width="500px"> <source src="data:image/png;base64,#assets/fig/tart_icing.mp4" type="video/mp4"> </video> ] --- class: inverse center middle # Assess the damage --- # Complete an intake -- - Read through everything - actually, everything -- - Keep a list of all the things you dislike -- <!-- You may find yourself in a place where the longform PDF documentatation doesn't align with what is happening in an Excel workbook --> <!-- This is the time to resolve that, and start --> - Replicate findings/results -- - Find your thing --- # Find your ✨thing✨ Find some aspect of this project you can make shine. -- Maps? Make the best maps ever -- Efficiency? Unleash your `purrr` -- <!-- Not sure yet? Find a new skill and use this as a learning opportunity --> Not sure? Pick out a new skill to learn --- class: inverse center middle # Do and document --- 💌 > Documentation is a love letter to your future self. - Damien Conway --- class: inverse center middle # Leave a gift, not a mystery --- ## Post project debrief .pull-left[ <video id="gift-video" controls muted height="400px" width="500px"> <source src="data:image/png;base64,#assets/fig/leave-a-gift.mp4" type="video/mp4"> </video> ] .pull-right[ <!-- Once the project is complete, and really truly complete, take a break --> - You should be a slightly different person than when you closed the project ] --- ## Document not only the **what**, but the **why** We used 2019 AADT <!-- this is a factual statement, but doesn't tell us why --> <!-- But, we completed this update in 2021, after the 2020 data had been released? --> "We used 2019 traffic data __because__ 2020 was anomalous" --- # I still don't care about trucks --- class: center, middle # Thanks! --- class: end-matter #### Project packages Aden-Buie, G. 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URL: [https://www.R-project.org/](https://www.R-project.org/). Thoen, E. (2022). _dutchmasters: Colour Pallettes based on Famous Paintings_. R package version 0.1.0. Wickham, H., R. François, L. Henry, et al. (2022). _dplyr: A Grammar of Data Manipulation_. R package version 1.0.9. URL: [https://CRAN.R-project.org/package=dplyr](https://CRAN.R-project.org/package=dplyr). Xie, Y. (2015). _Dynamic Documents with R and knitr_. 2nd. ISBN 978-1498716963. Boca Raton, Florida: Chapman and Hall/CRC. URL: [https://yihui.org/knitr/](https://yihui.org/knitr/). \-\-\- (2014). "knitr: A Comprehensive Tool for Reproducible Research in R". In: _Implementing Reproducible Computational Research_. Ed. by V. Stodden, F. Leisch and R. D. Peng. ISBN 978-1466561595. Chapman and Hall/CRC. URL: [http://www.crcpress.com/product/isbn/9781466561595](http://www.crcpress.com/product/isbn/9781466561595). \-\-\- (2022). _knitr: A General-Purpose Package for Dynamic Report Generation in R_. R package version 1.39. URL: [https://yihui.org/knitr/](https://yihui.org/knitr/). --- class: end-matter #### Multimedia sources <ul style="font-size: 15pt; text-align: left;"> - Stitch https://media.giphy.com/media/BbQrNk32kD064/giphy.gif - Mini tart icing https://gfycat.com/needygivingbufeo, as performed by [@jeanimbert](https://www.instagram.com/jeanimbert/?hl=en) --- other advice - general bits of good advice - specific way that I saw this in this problem - I got this problem that was easy, but it wasn't -> good hook - The truck becomes a plot device that can drive the story along - (maybe this big truck image that follows through) - most people won't be interested in the truck, - "I still don't care about trucks, but everyone in my office, go look at this thing because..." - in the do-and-document - show what "we" did. - start with statements - here is what we did - *now* so when you do this, try this thing - have the image of wrapping something up in a nice little box - concrete examples - lean into the part of the person bringing your project - act into it -> the audience knows where this is going, so you can lean into it. - I had to find the exciting stuff. It wasn't that easy, but I made it into a satisfying adventure. better off with an "MP4", you get the media control.